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Sensation & Perception
Sensation & Perception
Facts and explicit memories are stored by this area of the brain.
What is the Hippocampus?
This protects the axon and speeds up the message.
What is the myelin sheath?
The study of what we do, how we act and how we think.
What is psychology?
This describes why some students don't do any work in a group because they know others will do it for him.
What is social loafing?
This is awareness of self and environment.
What is consciousness?
This allows you to focus on your conversation partner in the cocktail party effect.
What is selective attention?
These chemicals can pass through the placenta.
What are teratogens?
This school focuses on unconscious drives (Sigmund Freud).
What is the psychodynamic school?
In the fundamental attribution error, you are more likely to emphasize this in the motivations of others.
What is dispositional attribution?
Alcohol is this type of drug.
What is depressant?
You can't remember your new address because you only remember your old one.
What is proactive interference?
This is the band of neural fibers connecting two brain hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
Piaget was a member of this school of psychology.
What is the cognitive school?
Agreeing to put a small sign in your yard and later a large billboard demonstrates this.
What is the foot-in-the-door phenomenon?
Our bodies' biological clock involving sleep cycles.
What is circadian rhythm?
This is the theory that the retina contains 3 color receptors; red, green and blue.
What is the Young-Helmholz trichromatic theory?
This is the problem when a survey is done to see how many teenagers at a high school do drugs, but it does not include home schooled kids or drop outs.
What is sampling bias?
One criticism of this historical school of psychology focuses on its use of introspection.
What is functionalism?
Rioters lose self-awareness and self-restraint because of this.
What is deindividuation?
The stage of sleep that young children spend more time in compared to adults.
What is stage 3 sleep?
When you listen to your music too loud, which causes damage to the ear drum.
What is conduction hearing loss?
When a subject is given sugar pill instead of real pill, and results are caused by expectations.
What is the placebo effect?
He established the first psychology lab, which was located in Germany.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
"You're the one who's blamed, do my work, do my dirty work, ________" -Metallica
What is scapegoat?
This is the theory of hypnosis that says people want to be good hypnotic subjects.
What is social influence theory?